Two Virginia Tech energy-related inventions win R&D 100 awards
Blacksburg, Va. -- Sensors invented by researchers with the Center for Photonics Technology, led by Electrical Engineering Professor Anbo Wang, will make oil wells more productive. Meanwhile, an economical fuel cell material created by faculty and students with the Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute, led by University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry James McGrath, will reduce our depend...Virginia Tech researchers to release findings on Smith River Project
BLACKSBURG, Va., Findings from the Smith River Research Project will be presented at a public forum at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8, in Collinsville, Va., at the Henry County Administration Building, 3300 Kings Mountain Road. ... ...Researchers from the Virginia Tech Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences will be presenting results from the five-year study of the "Influences of Fluctuatin...Virginia Tech professor honored with DeLaval Award
BLACKSBURG, Va. Ray Nebel, of Blacksburg, a professor of reproductive physiology in the department of dairy science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, received the DeLaval Dairy Extension award at the American Dairy Science Association annual meeting recently.... ...He was honored for his 20-year career of service to the dairy industry and especially for his researc...Virginia Tech's smelly 'corpse plant' due to bloom Aug. 4
Blacksburg, Va. Virginia Tech has a second Amorphophallus titanum, or "corpse plant," ready to bloom and emit its intensely powerful stench. People are invited to tie bandanas over their noses and come see the rare and unusual plant....... The horticulture greenhouse containing the plant is open to visitors Monday through Friday, July 26-30, and August 2-6, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The likely date f...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute researcher advances fight against sudden oak death disease
Blacksburg, Va., June 10, 2004 Virginia Bioinformatics Researcher Brett Tyler and his colleagues are one step closer to finding a cure for a disease affecting California oak trees that is now showing up in nurseries in a dozen states, including Virginia, and threatening woody ornamentals and East Coast forests....... Tyler and his colleagues have successfully mapped the genome of the devastating...Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research helps implement global climate change initiative
Blacksburg, Va. -- The Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research (VCCER), which is based at Virginia Tech, is leading an interdisciplinary coalition to identify potential carbon sequestration sinks within the Commonwealth of Virginia as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) $2.4 million Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership project....... "Carbon sequestration is importan...Cell cycle research earns biologist Virginia's top scientist award
Blacksburg, Va. -- John J. Tyson of Blacksburg, Va., University Distinguished Professor of Biology in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, has been named one of Virginia's three Outstanding Scientists of 2004, according to an announcement by Governor Mark R. Warner and Science Museum of Virginia Director Walter R.T. Witschey....... Tyson is a world leader in the newly emerging field of comput...Virginia Tech-led group receives third five-year international biodiversity grant
(Blacksburg, Va.) Ten years ago, a Virginia Tech-led team of chemists, conservationists, and botanists began to work in Suriname to discover new drugs and to give the country reasons to preserve the biodiversity of its forests. Five years later, in 1998, they were screening two potential anticancer compounds, had discovered five rare plants, and had saved some of the country's tropical forest fr...Virginia Tech researcher receives $1.8 million to study Arabidopsis genome
Blacksburg, Va. -- Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) researcher Vladimir Shulaev has been awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the collaborative "Arabidopsis 2010" research project. Through such projects, the NSF hopes to determine the function of 25,000 genes in Arabidopsis thaliana by the year 2010. The research conducted at VBI will examine parts...Virginia Tech and North Carolina State University to run Forest Nutrition Research Cooperative
Blacksburg, Va. -- Virginia Tech's department of forestry in the College of Natural Resources and the department of forestry at North Carolina State University have formed a partnership to jointly run the Forest Nutrition Research Cooperative. Thomas Fox, associate professor of forestry at Virginia Tech', and H. Lee Allen, professor of forestry from NCSU, are co-directors. ... ...The Forest Nut...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute central to Regional Center of Excellence
Blacksburg, Va. -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a five-year, $42 million grant to establish a mid-Atlantic Regional Center of Excellence (RCE) for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases ( ). Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech will serve as the genomics and bioinformatics core for the 15-university collaboration led by the University of Mar...NIH awards $1 million to Virginia Bioinformatics Institute to study biochemical network modeling
Blacksburg, Va. -- Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) researchers Reinhard Laubenbacher, Pedro Mendes, and Vladimir Shulaev have been awarded $1 million from the National Institutes of Health. The funds will be used to develop mathematical tools to model biochemical networks from experimental data. ... ...In particular, the experiments will focus on oxidative stress in baker's yeast, known...Mosquitoes infected with La Crosse encephalitis found in four Southwest Virginia counties
Blacksburg, Va. -- Virginia Tech entomologists have documented for the first time the presence of mosquitoes infected with La Crosse virus in four Southwest Virginia Counties. ... ...Sally Paulson, an associate professor of entomology, said the find from samples taken last year and recently analyzed was surprising because no human cases of the disease had been reported in the counties before.......Virginia Tech inventions, creations can improve lives
From peanuts to switches for fuel cell vehicles, Virginia Tech inventions, creations can improve lives... ...(Blacksburg, Va., April 11, 2003) -- Virginia Tech faculty members, students, and staff who received 26 patents during 2002 will be honored by the university and Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (VTIP, ......Mi...Virginia Tech professor Marjorie Grene is the first woman in The Library of Living Philosophers
Blacksburg, Va., Jan. 29, 2003 -- With the publication of one book, Virginia Tech philosopher Marjorie Grene became the first woman to join the ranks of such great philosophers as Albert Einstein (philosopher-scientist), Jean-Paul Sartre, John Dewey, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Paul Weiss, and Donald Davidson. ...... The Library of Living Philosophers has published The Philosophy of...Virginia's champion trees make history
Blacksburg, Va., -- Big trees are important to everyone. "Not only do they provide useful information about natural history and forest ecology, but they add beauty to our landscape, as well as health, and even economic values. The Virginia Big Tree Program offers recognition to the commonwealth's rich natural heritage. In fact, Virginia is ranked 4th in United States champion trees," said Jeff Ki...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute to decode plant devourer genomes
Blacksburg, Va. -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have jointly awarded $2.3 million to Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) researchers at Virginia Tech. Combined with $1.5 million from the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, these funds will enable sequencing of the genomes of two species of Phytophthora, a plant pathogen whose n...Virginia Tech wildlife sciences professor improves sheep counts in Grand Canyon
Blacksburg, Va., Sept. 17, 2002 -- Virginia Tech wildlife sciences professor Michael Vaughan has turned the process of counting sheep into a science, although not as a sleep aid. To determine population density, lamb production, and survival rates of the Grand Canyon bighorn sheep population, Vaughan spends four weeks a year rafting down the Colorado River taking scientific counts of sheep.... .....Rare, smelly 'corpse plant' ready to bloom at Virginia Tech
BLACKSBURG, Va. Aug. 27, 2002-- Just in time for the return of Virginia Tech students for fall semester, the Amorphophallus titanum, or "corpse plant," is ready to bloom, probably during the coming week, and emit its intensely powerful stench. ......A blooming Amorphophallus titanum, or titan arum, is rare, according to Khidir Hilu of Virginia Tech's biology department, which operates the greenho...Virginia Tech researchers receive $450,000 award to model cell division
BLACKSBURG, Va., June 26, 2002 Cancer is a group of diseases involving misregulation of cell growth and division. The more we know about how cells grow and divide under normal circumstances, the better we will understand how things go awry in cancer cells. ...... For this reason, John Tyson, University Distinguished Professor of Biology at Virginia Tech, and Bela Novak, professor of biotechnolog...From nanotechnology to raspberries, Virginia Tech inventions and creations can improve our lives
(Blacksburg, Va., May 8, 2002) -- Virginia Tech faculty members, students, and staff received 15 patents, including one plant patent, plus eight plant variety protection patents during 2001. They will be honored by the university and Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (VTIP) at a reception on May 8. ...... "It is a pleasure to recognize the individuals whose discoveries have contributed...Virginia Tech study documents hypertension association with obesity and heavy alcohol consumption
NEW ORLEANS, April 22, 2002 Race and ethnicity, age, obesity, and heavy alcohol consumption are strongly associated with hypertension in both men and women over the age of 40, according to the results of a study by Virginia Tech researchers to be presented at the Experimental Biology 2002 conference, being held in New Orleans through April 24....... "Our findings demonstrate the importance of m...Salem, Virginia chemist wins national award for environmental work
George R. Lester of Salem, Va., will be honored April 9 by the worlds largest scientific society for his role in developing catalytic converters to reduce pollutant emissions from automobiles and other contributions to environmental science over the course of his career. He will receive the 2002 E.V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry from the American Chemical Society at its...Kingston named Virginia Outstanding Scientist of 2002
Researcher's work improves anti-cancer drug and helps save tropical forests... ...BLACKSBURG, Va., Feb. 20, 2002 -- Years of research by Virginia Tech chemist David G. I. Kingston has resulted in knowledge that helped improve the efficiency of a potent anti-cancer drug and also helped in saving vital tropical forests in South America. For this and other work, the Science Museum of Virginia and...Virginia Tech and Johns Hopkins invest $10 million to combat major human diseases
BLACKSBURG, Va., Jan. 24, 2002 -- Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Bloomberg School of Public Health have announced a $10 million bioinformatics research collaboration to target human infectious diseases. Each university will invest a minimum of $1 million per year for five years to better understand tuberculosis, AIDS, malaria, measl...BLACKSBURG, Va., Understanding the functions of the genes in the plant Arabidopsis could help with research in the fields of agriculture, medicine, and energy; and Virginia Tech researchers have received a grant from the National Science Foundations Arabidopsis 2010 Project Program to help understand those genes....... Asim Esen and Brenda Winkel of biology and David R. Bevan of biochemistry, a...Virginia Tech study may help develop more effective clean up of gasoline spills
BLACKSBURG, Va., Nov. 8, 2001 In an effort to enable more effective clean up of gasoline spills, Virginia Tech geological sciences researchers are looking at whether microbes use terminal electron accepting processes sequentially or simultaneously. ... ...The research will be presented during the 113th National Geological Society of America meeting in Boston, Nov. 1-10, 2001. ......Jackson M. Sp...Virginia Tech leads global effort to sort out social, economic impacts of agricultural biotechnology
BLACKSBURG, Oct. 15, 2001 Agricultural biotechnology holds the promise of hardier, healthier, and more abundant sources of food for people around the world as well as new sources for pharmaceuticals.... ...Biotechnology is also likely to produce winners and losers as a result of social and economic impacts, says George Norton. The professor of agricultural and applied economics at Virginia Tech...Blacksburg, Va., September 6 2001 -- The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech has received a $289,429, 10-month contract from Phenomenome Discoveries, Inc. to collaborate with Phenomenome to develop innovative software that will allow scientists to visualize metabolomics data. ... ...Metabolomics is the study of changes in the expression of a large number of small organic mole...(Blacksburg, Va., Aug. 29, 2001) -- Back in the days when the earth was a hot and poisonous place in terms of life as we know it -- the primordial soup days of some 3.5 billion years ago -- there was life. Robert H. White and other scientists who want to know about the origin of life often study Archaea, bacteria that evolved from the earliest form of life at least 2 billion years ago. (The Eukar...... ... KANSAS CITY, Mo. Jim and Virginia Stowers have made an additional gift of securities valued at $1.114 billion to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a step that greatly enhances the Institutes ability to recruit top-quality scientists.... ... "The recruiting of scientists by Bill Neaves, our president, and Robb Krumlauf, our scientific director, is going so well that we dont...Virginia Tech researchers explore surface solubility, polarity
. (Blacksburg, Va., April 3, 2001) -- Virginia Tech researchers have demonstrated that a new type of polymer surface modifier will reverse the polarity of the molecules on a surface. . The polarity of molecules on a material's surface determines what will stick to that surface. "The aim is to be able to tune or control the solubility of a surface so it will interact with multiple molecule...Virginia Tech teams with US Army on exercise research
.BLACKSBURG, Va., Aug. 9, 2000 -- Stress fractures are debilitating and costly, and they pose a serious problem for physically active military personnel. Female soldiers suffer these fractures along the tibia, or shin bone, at twice the rate of their male counterparts during training. These types of fractures erode physical capabilities and reduce effectiveness of combat training units, essentia...Virginia Tech forms optical sciences and engineering research center. . .BLACKSBURG, Va. Nov. 18, 1999---Carilion Health System announced today it is.contributing $20 million in "start-up" funds to establish the Carilion Biomedical.Institute in Roanoke,Va., in partnership with Virginia Tech and the University of.Virginia. Including funding by the universities, the total investment over five .y...Virginia Tech microbe-minerals group launches new field of study
.(Blacksburg, Va., Sept. 27, 1999) -- Microbial interactions with mineral.surfaces influence the bioavailability of both nutrients and contaminants in the.environment, impacting such diverse environmental processes as the fate and.transport of heavy metals, biodegradation of environmental contaminants, and.effective use of agrochemicals. Yet, as critical as microbe-mineral interactions.are, in t...USGS responds to Hurricane Floyd in Virginia
.Heavy rains have occurred as Floyd moved into eastern and central Virginia..Currently, streamflows in some rivers in southeastern Virginia are already above.flood stage. These include the Meherrin, Nottoway, and Blackwater Rivers..Numerous smaller streams in these areas are also causing local flooding.. .Last night and early this morning, USGS personnel in Virginia headed out in vans.packed wit...Hurricane Floyd brings record flooding to southeast Virginia
.Torrential rains from Hurricane Floyd have resulted in widespread flooding in.southeast Virginia. Flooding along the Blackwater River in Southampton County is.extensive, and river stage is still rising at the streamgage operated by the.U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) near the town of Franklin. The current river level.exceeds the peak of record at the gage, which has been in operation for 55.years.... The human enzymes produced in tobacco could someday provide.low-cost treatment for Gaucher's disease and other genetic disorders . Blacksburg, Va., -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.yesterday issued patent 5,929,304 for "Production of Lysosomal Enzymes in.Plant-based Expression Systems" to Carole Cramer, Virginia Tech professor of.plant pathology, physiology, and weed sciences, Ka....BLACKBURG, VA, June 29, 1999 -- Pharming Healthcare Inc., the American.subsidiary of Pharming Group N.V. of Leiden, Netherlands, will locate two unique.pharmaceutical production installations in Southwest Virginia. A "transgenic".cattle farm in Craig County and purification facility at the Virginia Tech.Corporate Research Center will comprise the first and second stages of its.unique productio....BLACKSBURG, VA., FEB. 19, 1999--Can humans redesign themselves? What are the.qualities that define us as humans, and is it desirable--or acceptable--to.change them? Are there limits to what should be attempted? How do we decide?. .The Choices and Challenges Project will present a public forum on Reinventing.the Human Thursday, March 25, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Donaldson Brown Hotel and.Conference...